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Interaction Between Translators’ Activities and Target Socio―Cultural Context： A Case Study of 　　[a]School of Foreign Languages， Dongfang College， Zhejiang University of Finance Economy， Hangzhou， China. 　　Abstract 　　The target-oriented theories in cultural turn， based on the theoretical foundation that translation is a process subject to differing socio-historical conditions， provide us a wide scope to re-observe translators’ activities as well as their interaction with the target socio-cultural context. Aiming to have a deep understanding of this type of interaction， this paper examines the translation activities in late Qing dynasty in China. By presenting a general picture about the translation practice in late Qing dynasty， this paper looks into how the late Qing translators interact with the socio-cultural constraints and how their translation activities counteract to the target culture. 　　Key words： Interaction； Translation activities； late Qing dynasty； Target socio-cultural context 　　INTRODUCTION 　　Translation is traditionally regarded as a linguistic action that concentrates on the conversion from one language into another. By focusing on linguistic layer and source texts， traditional translation studies are approached from a series of opposite issues concerning faithfulness and unfaithfulness， literalness and freedom， loss and gain and so on. Consequently， translation is restricted within the ontological pattern featured by its source-oriented static prescription. It ignores the concrete situations， societies and histories that actual translation happens. Obviously enough， the scope and perspective of such kind of studies are narrow and self-close. 　　Fortunately， the close relationship between language and culture suggests a shift from a linguistic perspective to a broad cultural perspective in translation studies. As is known to all， language and culture are always interweaving in that a language mirrors a given culture by recoding the cultur